Adam J. Plumondore
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Age: 22
From: Gresham, Ore.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash.
Incident: Army Sgt. Adam J. Plumondore was killed Feb. 16 when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle in Mosul, Iraq.
Died: February 16, 2005
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Oregon soldier killed in Iraq
Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. — An explosion has claimed the life of a Gresham soldier serving in Iraq, military officials said.
Sgt. Adam Plumondore, 22, of Gresham died Feb. 16 in Mosul, when a bomb detonated near his vehicle, according to the Department of Defense.
Plumondore, a former track runner and football and baseball player at Gresham High School, was assigned to the Army’s 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, based at Fort Lewis, Wash.
The 40th soldier with Oregon ties to be killed in the Iraq war, Plumondore was deployed to Iraq last October, three days shy of when he expected to leave the military, said his parents, Daniel and Elfriede Plumondore of Gresham.
Plumondore did patrols and served as a sniper. A U.S. Army Infantry School magazine noted that he tied for third place in...
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Prayers & Messages
I lost my brother to a foreign land;
I was too young to even understand
There was a knock at the front door,
then Momma wasn't smiling anymore.
The man at the door was a Marine;
the first I've ever seen.
Momma told me to go out and play,
then the preacher came
and they started to pray.
Tears ran down Momma's eyes,
and I heard her say, "Why, Lord, Why"?
Father stood there seemingly mindless,
all he said was, "We've lost another of
America's finest."
The Marine handed Momma a small velvet case,
inside was a Purple Ribbon, attached to a
gold heart with Washington's face.
I asked Momma if it were mine,
but she said, "It's your brother's, Sunshine."
"Momma can we send it to Kevin?"
She answered, "They don't wear Purple Hearts in Heaven."
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